Aaron Facts for 3-8 Year Olds

Categories: Men in the Old Testament, Moses

• Aaron is Moses’ older brother.
• His name means “lofty, holy, or high mountain.”
• There is no information about his birth or his early years.
• When Aaron is a grown-up, God chooses him to help Moses speak to Pharaoh.
• Moses tells him everything the Lord wants him to say.
• God instructs them to bring His people out of Egypt.
• Aaron marries and has four sons.
• Aaron is 83 when God speaks to Pharaoh through him.
• Aaron and Moses lead them out into the wilderness.
• Aaron and 70 elders go up Mount Sinai with Moses.
• God chooses Aaron and his sons to be priests.
• After that ceremony, Moses goes up the mountain again; the people ask Aaron to make gods to “go before us.”
• Aaron makes a golden calf.
• When Moses returns, the people are wild, and he blames Aaron.
• The people are punished with a plague.
• After a potential rebellion, the Lord instructs a leader of each tribe to bring his staff to the tent of meeting. The staff of the man God chooses will start growing overnight.
• By the next morning, Aaron’s staff had not only sprouted, but also budded, blossomed and was producing almonds.
• When the Israelites are close to the Promised Land, God tells Moses, “Aaron will not enter the land I give the Israelites, because both of you rebelled against my command at the waters of Meribah."
• He asks Moses to take Aaron and his son, Eleazar, up Mount Hor.
• There, he is to remove Aaron’s garments and put them on his son.
• Aaron stays on the mountain.
• The people mourn Aaron for thirty days.
• Aaron is 123 when he dies on Mount Hor.